The Poems of MS Junius 11
Subtitle: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England, Vol. 8)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780815338628
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History and criticism; England; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Anglo-Saxon; English; Literary Criticism; Manuscripts, Medieval; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Christian poetry, English (Old); Medieval; Caedmon manuscript; Christian poetry, English (Old; English poetry; Old English, ca. 450-1100
First sentence: The phrase "Germania Latina," whilst capturing the essence of what the present papers variously set out to examine-the coming together of Germanic and Latin (Christian) cultures in medieval northwest Europe-pinpoints with equal effectiveness the two extreme positions from which scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have approached the vernacular poetry of Anglo-Saxon England.